A Smithfield Township woman missing for two days was found by police officers Thursday in the Moore Township woods near Bath.

Moore police said Toni Serfas, 53, of the Smithfield Trailer Court, was disoriented and dehydrated when they found her.

Serfas had to be carried out of a ravine, Moore's Deputy Chief Jim Cavallo said.

"She had no idea where she was," Cavallo said. "She thought she was home."

Township police first noticed Serfas' abandoned car on the Plaza Court cul-de-sac along Route 512 early Wednesday, but there was no sign of her.

Police Chief Gary West and Detective Jason Gianatiempo on Thursday drove up to Serfas' mobile home park, where neighbors said she has been despondent since her husband died three years ago, Cavallo said.

"There were some things they told us that caused us some concern that she might be out here in the [Moore Township] woods," he said, so he and Gianatiempo went out to look.

At 4:30 p.m., about 45 minutes into their hunt for Serfas, they were a half-mile into the thick woods northwest of Plaza Court when they almost called off the search.

"We were just about ready to give up and I yelled 'hello' once or twice," Cavallo said. "After the third time, a voice yelled back, 'Hello, help me, I'm here!'

"Me and Detective Gianatiempo, we looked at each other like, 'You kidding me?'" he said. "I kept yelling, 'Just keep yelling to us,' and we found her. She was next to a marsh and a little creek.

"She had a lot of scratches from sticker bushes, scratches all over her face and arms and legs. She said she couldn't walk. She told me she was crawling, trying to look for her car."

Cavallo called on the Klecknersville Rangers Fire Company to carry Serfas out of the ravine on a six-wheel rescue vehicle. Then paramedics took her to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg.

Serfas said she was hungry, she wanted a cheeseburger, Cavallo said. But paramedics did not allow her to be fed immediately.

Gianatiempo theorized that Serfas chose to stop at Plaza Court in Moore Township because the street name reminded her of the Plaza Court sign next to her mobile home park 20 miles to the north, Cavallo said.

Gianatiempo noticed the identical street names when he went up to talk with Serfas' neighbors.

Cavallo said Serfas' behavior might not be possible to explain fully, but police were fortunate to have enough facts to suspect something was wrong.

"For some reason, we just knew we had to keep looking," Cavallo said. "We couldn't just go home. I'm just so glad we didn't give up."